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"Lilla gumman du kan inte bestämma över mig" : En kvalitativ studie om kvinnliga polisers erfarenheter av könsdiskriminering i arbetet
No full textDen svenska polisens uppgift grundar sig i att arbeta för landets medborgare. De verkar beskyddande för vårt demokratiska samhälle och således även för invånarnas rättigheter respektive skyldigheter. Till polisrollen tillskrivs således en auktoritet, allmänheten måste respektera polisens arbete. Att bli bemött med denna respekt är inte alltid självklar, särskilt inte för landets kvinnliga poliser. Till skillnad från sina manliga kollegor får den kvinnliga polisen erfara en allmänhet som diskriminerar henne utifrån hennes könstillhörighet. Denna uppsats syftar till att undersöka hur dessa erfarenheter ser ut, vad de kvinnliga poliserna får utså i sitt arbete och hur det påverkar dem. Studien genomfördes med en kvalitativ ansats där materialet bestod av semistrukturerade intervjuer med kvinnliga poliser som arbetar eller har arbetat i yttre tjänst. Materialet analyserades utifrån Yvonne Hirdmans genusvetenskapliga teorier om genusordningen respektive genuskontraktet samt Erving Goffmans socialpsykologiska teorier om självframställning och intryckstyrning. Resultatet visade en problematik där de kvinnliga poliserna beskriver hur de anpassar sig till trakasserier från allmänheten och att de är en del av deras arbetsvardag
Participants’ Experiences of Sex Offender Treatment : Searching for Desisting Narrative Identities
No full textLife-course criminology has demonstrated the importance of social relationships and life transitions to understand desistance. Yet, individuals convicted of sexual offenses seem to differ in terms of turning points, where treatment is suggested as salient to their desistance processes. Drawing on 13 teller-focused interviews with adult male incarcerated participants in a new Swedish sex offender program, this paper examines the treatment experience and the under-explored aspect of early desistance, as well as the role of society and social relations in the treatment process, through a practice-oriented lens. The thematic analysis suggests participants started developing desisting narrative identities where micro turning points in treatment contributed to offenses being explained and re-integrated into a sense of the self as an acceptable person. The process, which also enabled active responsibility, seemed to be facilitated by a holistic, person-centered treatment environment. Nonetheless, continued desistance requires adequate attention to social support and stigma management post-release
Information Security Behavior in Healthcare : A study about goal conflicts between information security and efficiency
No full textThe purpose of this study is to examine how healthcare staff experience and manage goal conflicts between efficient work performance and the demands of information security. The study is based on semi‑structured interviews with healthcare staff from various organizations. The material was analyzed thematically, identifying recurring patterns and themes. Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) was applied to gain deeper insights into how behavioral science theories can explain healthcare staff’s behavioral patterns. The results show that rule violations often occur in high‑pressure situations where patient safety is prioritized, but also in everyday situations where time‑saving and efficiency guide decisions. A lack of clear guidelines and managerial support creates a broad scope for interpretation, meaning that responsibility for compliance is frequently delegated to the individual. Furthermore, a low interest in mandatory information security training contributes to limited understanding of the purpose and consequences of the rules. The analysis demonstrates that these factors together lead to a culture where rule violations become gradually normalized. When negative consequences, such as sanctions or follow‑up, rarely occur, informal norms emerge that legitimize deviations from security routines
What are the important risk factors for excessive daytime sleepiness in a population-based cohort?
No full textExcessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is a common complaint in the general population and is associated with cardiovascular disease and increased mortality. We aimed to investigate whether sleep duration is related to excessive daytime sleepiness in the general population, both in itself and in combination with other factors. We performed a cross-sectional analysis in the population-based Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study (SCAPIS) cohort (n = 27,976; 14,436 females; aged 50-64 years) to assess how sleep-related factors along with anthropometric, lifestyle, socioeconomic factors as well as somatic disease and psychological distress, were related with EDS assessed by the Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS). Analyses were performed using logistic regression modelling with EDS defined by an ESS score of ≥11 as the main outcome. Both short and long sleep duration were related to EDS with increasing ORs for decreasing sleep duration (7 h vs. reference (8 h): OR 1.2, 95% CI 1.02-1.3 to ≤4 h: 1.9; 1.4-2.5). In addition to sleep-related factors such as insomnia (1.3; 1.2-1.4), poor sleep quality (1.2; 1.04-1.4), snoring (1.5; 1.4-1.6), and nocturnal gastro-oesophageal reflux (1.5; 1.21-1.8), psychological distress showed a strong association with EDS. This included sadness/depression (1.2; 1.1-1.3), stress (some stress: 1.4; 1.1-1.7 to constant stress over 5 years: 1.7; 1.3-2.2), and self-rated "control in life" (lowest quartile: 1.7; 1.6-2.0). Daytime sleepiness is multifactorial and associated with both sleep duration and sleep quality. Strong associations were also established with factors related to psychological distress. Further research may investigate interventions targeting both sleep and psychological health to reduce daytime sleepiness at the societal level
Integer Solutions to Some Diophantine Equations of Leech Type with Geometric Applications
No full textIn this paper, we derive integer pseudo-parametric solutions to two sets of Diophantine equations. Moreover, we describe the so-called Double Crossed Ladder (DCL) and show how these results can be used to calculate an infinite number of integer solutions of its sides. In addition, we describe the fact that these results can be used to derive some corresponding sets of integer sides of more complex geometric structures
Combined lexical and phonotactic data resolve uncertainties in the evolutionary diversification of the Japonic language family
No full textThe use of phylogenetic methods in linguistics has provided new insights into the structure, age, and spread of language families. Despite increasing recognition of Japonic as one of the world's primary language families, research on the family's phylogeny remains limited. This study presents a new reconstruction of Japonic language history based on NichiRyuuLex, a new lexical dataset comprising data from 48 Japanese and 33 Ryukyuan lects for 256 concepts. The study combines lexical and phonotactic data to increase precision in the phylogenetic parameter estimates, providing a more informative reconstruction. The analyses presented here confirm previous findings on the age of the family as a whole, estimating a Japanese-Ryukyuan split at around 400-500 Bce, supporting that the time of diversification coincides with the influx of Bronze Age rice agriculturists during the Yayoi Period. The topology of the mainland Japanese clade uncovered in the analyses unifies two divisions recognized in traditional Japanese dialectology: the East-West division, and the center-periphery division. The topology of the Ryukyuan clade largely followed geographical segmentation-Northern Ryukyuan (Amami; Okinawa) vs. Southern Ryukyuan (Miyako; Macro-Yaeyama). The ancestor of Ryukyuan was dated to around the ninth century, coinciding with the first traces of cereal farming in the Northern Ryukyu Islands. In sum, the study provides greater certainty about the linguistic history and internal structure of mainland Japanese, as well as a more detailed perspective on the history of the Ryukyuan languages
Early substrate-based catheter ablation vs. antiarrhythmic drug therapy for ventricular tachyarrhythmias among patients with prior myocardial infarction : the MANTRA-VT randomized trial
No full textAims: Ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VT/VF) are common among patients with prior myocardial infarction (MI). MANTRA-VT trial was designed to compare the efficacy and safety of early substrate-based radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) to antiarrhythmic drug (AAD) therapy for ventricular tachyarrhythmias. Methods and results: We randomly assigned 58 AAD na & iuml;ve post MI patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) and at least one documented VT/VF episode after the device implantation to an initial treatment strategy of substrate-based RFCA or AAD therapy. The primary endpoint was cumulative number of ventricular tachyarrhythmias (VT/VF burden) at 12 months. The secondary endpoints included all-cause mortality, hospitalization, adverse events, and VT/VF burden at 24 months. Analyses were performed on an intention-to-treat basis. The median number of VT/VF episodes at 12 months was zero in both the RFCA (range 0-3) and the AAD group (range 0-23) (P = 0.454), whereas the rate of appropriate ICD shocks was 7% and 30% in the RFCA and the AAD groups (P = 0.026), respectively. During the extended follow-up, 82% of the patients in the RFCA group and 63% in the AAD group had no ICD therapies (P = 0.012). There was no significant difference between the groups in total mortality (HR 1.02, 95% CI 0.20-5.11, P = 0.86) and hospitalization (HR 1.35, 95% CI 0.36-5.09. P = 0.66) at 24 months. Therapy-related adverse events occurred in 3.6% and 16.7% of the patients in the RFCA and the AAD groups (P = 0.10), respectively. Conclusion: Early substrate-based RFCA was associated with reduced risk of ICD therapies, but with no meaningful difference in VT/VF burden, mortality, hospitalization, and adverse events
Performance evaluation of WRF model in simulating a thundershower event of March 2025 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
No full textThis study evaluates the performance of Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model in simulating a thundershower event that occurred in Bhubaneswar, Odisha valid 18 UTC on 22 March to 00 UTC on 23 March 2025. ASimulation was conducted using WRF single moment six-class (WSM6) microphysics, Yonsei University Planetary boundary layer parameterizations to study the storm structure, precipitation, and dynamics. Model simulated outputs are compared with observations including Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) rainfall data. Results indicate that the model effectively captures the spatial distribution and temporal evolution of the thundershower, although with certain biases in rainfall intensity and timing. The analysis of horizontal divergence and relative vorticity features underscore the necessity for improved microphysical representations in numerical weather prediction models to enhance forecasting accuracy for convective events associated with thundershowers/thunderstorms in tropical and subtropical regions
Language Ideologies in Meänkieli Teaching and Learning Resources
No full textMeänkieli is a minoritised and endangered language traditionally spoken in Northern Sweden. Thisstudy analyses linguistic variation in a selection of contemporary Meänkieli teaching and learningresources (TLRs) and discusses the language ideologies and the sociopolitical context connectedto the variation. In a complex assemblage of perspectives and practices, this study identifies fourideologies behind variation in TLRs: two more purist ideologies (traditional, standard language)and two inclusive ideologies (post-traditional, translanguaging, polynomic). Using a close readingmethod, both explicit and implicit expressions of variation are examined in the data set thatconsists of a grammar, five school textbooks, one phrasebook, one online platform, and twodictionaries. The analysis of implicit views on variation focuses, for example, on Swedish loanwords and certain key grammatical forms. The grammar book in the study is governed by standardlanguage ideology with traditional and post-traditional elements. The school textbooks, similar tothe grammar book, are based on the authors’ Torne Valley variety, the most widely-used regionalvariety of Meänkieli, and use Swedish to a varying degree following a translanguaging approach.The innovative or interactive mainly digital materials are polynomic and post-traditional. One ofthe dictionaries and the phrase book brings in varieties outside Sweden, while the other dictionaryincludes regional varieties of Meänkieli in Sweden. Instructional and experiential TLRs are morelikely to follow a standard and balance traditional and nontraditional language, while exploratoryand elicitative materials are more polynomic and post-traditional. The study concludes with asummary of the results and suggestions for further studies
